The Buckman Direct Diversion is now picking up the tab to test drinking water from the Rio Grande after the federal ...

When a nuclear accident happens, it’s vital that scientists have accurate fallout models.

Nuclear fallout events, whether triggered deliberately or accidentally, are something we hope will never happen. But if they ...

A new study shows that a single radioactive cloud was responsible for a large share of the nuclear fallout during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011. The work is published in the ...

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

Scientists have identified traces of radioactive stardust preserved in Antarctic ice, directly linking Earth to debris produced by ancient stellar explosions. The discovery involves iron-60, a rare ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Navy waited 11 months to alert locals that airborne plutonium at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard had exceeded ...

Iodine-131 is a dangerous radioactive isotope. It can clog up your thyroid gland and contaminate food. It’s been a big problem in Japan (for obvious reasons), but now it’s been scarily detected ...

The number of radioactive particles detected in Dalgety Bay are continuing to fall.